Again with the air quality...

"Wisconsin is under an air quality watch through 11 p.m. today, the state Department of Natural Resources said."

Human Trial for Possible HIV Cure

Let's hope that this scourge is cured soon.

It's good to see progress is being made.

Open Source VMWare

Will this make VMWare the defacto standard?

Police Procedures

If picking on certain groups doesn't even work, why do it? Tolerance of the tolerable is good. Diversity is good. It makes us stronger.

I once took a psychology class where they showed a video that clearly demonstrated how different folks perceptions of the same event can be. Basically someone in a crowd fired a weapon and you couldn't tell exactly who but the scene was rife with suggestive clues (both right and wrong). It appears that even false confessions can also corrupt those perceptions.

Trek!

CBS classics is putting TOS online among other shows.

Some dude robbed a convenience store with a Bat'leth.

Superbowl Pr0n Prank?

The pornographic content that interrupted thousands of local Comcast subscribers’ Super Bowl broadcast was the result of an “isolated malicious act,” a company spokeswoman said Monday.

DePere Roundabout Backups

Many more folks than normal are using the DePere bridge because 172 is under construction. There was a backup this morning as a result. “It wouldn’t be any better if we had traffic lights at the intersection,” Beiderwieden said. “It probably would be worse.” This is very likely true. Police Chief Beiderwieden is very likely right. Modern roundabouts move more cars and people faster than signalized intersections.